CHAPTER XIX 



IDAHO 



The year I went to South Dakota for the 

 first time to visit my brother proved to be an 

 "off year" in crops. Small grain was very poor 

 and west of the Missouri river, conditions were 

 even worse. 



I saw train after train of settlers driving across 

 the prairie, leaving their claims and going back 

 east. It looked like a bad year all around and 

 my brother decided to quit Chamberlain and look 

 for a new location. 



Both my brother and I had often talked about 

 taking a trip into the northwestern part of the 

 United States, and we decided now to tramp 

 through as veterinarians. 



We wanted most particularly to see the state 

 of Idaho and that was our ultimate goal. While 

 we wound up in Idaho all right, we changed our 

 program to a certain extent, in so far as we did 

 no veterinary work until we ran out of cash and 

 had to work in order to be able to eat. 



We left Chamberlain, S. D., on the one train 

 which ran daily to Rapid City, arriving there the 

 next morning. Rapid City we found to be a fine 

 little town and the country around it looked 

 prosperous in comparison to the "Bad Lands" 

 that one sees before reaching there. 



From Rapid City we went to Edgemont, over 

 a jerk- water road that runs through the Black 



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